After closing out the year on a decidedly negative note, and leaving more and more investors guessing that 2019 could be the year the market, and the economy officially turns bearish, stocks generally rebounded over the last week. The market seems to have decided to use the market’s drop to near-bear market levels in December as a new opportunity to buy low and to start trying to build a fresh round of upward momentum. Half a dozen sectors are up more than 1% in the last week. One of those is the Materials sector, which based on the S&P 500 Materials Sector SPDR (XLB) is up 1.5% so far this year. More →